A standard socket, so the lamp outlives the bulb rather than dying with it.
Most floor lamps sold now have the light soldered into them. When the diode dims, and it will, the whole object is waste: there is no bulb to change and no part to order. Every lamp here takes an ordinary screw-fit bulb instead, which means it accepts whatever the next thirty years of lighting turns out to be. The rest is a steel pole, a weighted base and a fabric shade, none of which has ever needed inventing again.
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Three arms, three fabric shades and three ordinary screw-fit sockets, which is the tree lamp as it was built before anyone thought to glue the light in. The arms rotate independently, so one lamp lights a sofa, a chair and a corner, and when a bulb goes you change a bulb.
A teardrop body in two-tone wood under a plain white shade, with the switch where it belongs, on the socket under the shade. Six and a half feet of lamp that reads as furniture rather than equipment, which is the whole point of putting one next to a chair.
A brass arc on a marble base with a rounded spotlight head, which is the expensive-looking end of this page and the one that reads as a design object rather than a light source.
The pharmacy lamp is a nineteenth century shape that nobody has improved on: a weighted base, a telescoping pole and a swing arm that puts light over your shoulder and onto the page. Metal throughout, a medium base socket, and height and reach both adjust by hand.
Three arms, three fabric shades and three ordinary screw-fit sockets, which is the tree lamp as it was built before anyone thought to glue the light in. The arms rotate independently, so one lamp lights a sofa, a chair and a corner, and when a bulb goes you change a bulb.
A teardrop body in two-tone wood under a plain white shade, with the switch where it belongs, on the socket under the shade. Six and a half feet of lamp that reads as furniture rather than equipment, which is the whole point of putting one next to a chair.
A brass arc on a marble base with a rounded spotlight head, which is the expensive-looking end of this page and the one that reads as a design object rather than a light source.
The pharmacy lamp is a nineteenth century shape that nobody has improved on: a weighted base, a telescoping pole and a swing arm that puts light over your shoulder and onto the page. Metal throughout, a medium base socket, and height and reach both adjust by hand.
Medium base E26 socket
Telescoping pole, adjusts by hand
Swing arm reaches over a chair
Metal throughout, weighted base
Shape unchanged for a century
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